Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Solatorobo is Officially Being Localized

Right, so this is pretty old news, to most of you that is. I have known that this game would be localized for quite some time. So what will become of this blog?

My plans are that I will keep the blog up. As a personal reference mostly. I hope to be improving on my Japanese and translating the Japanese version of this game would be great practice for me. More like a personal project. I will also keep this blog up in case there are those who prefer the Japanese version over an English version. I know of people like that (me for example), and sometimes it really is exciting having a Japanese game, but like to have a separate, print script translation to reference to while they play.

For those persons, I will just say that the translations will progress rather slowly. But probably in Summer when classes are over, it will pick up speed. It's a fantastic game, I'm glad they decided to localize it elsewhere.

4 comments:

It IS great news, even if it's old (I actually found out real evidence like screenshots only yesterday =p )

Thanks for your effort on the translation, man, and this also shows which characters had their names changed. I totally liked the original name of the quest shop attendant better than "Flo"... She's still a cutie anyway, so it's alright xD

At my former company in late 2008 or early 2009, I re-translated and edited the English script for "Project Coda" while playing a Japanese alpha version. Later, we were told that that development of the game was put on hold, and that was the end of that. (Then I cursed myself for not copying the prototype DS ROM).

Anyway, just a few weeks ago, I was reading a forum and someone had an avatar of Red. I was like, "that's from a game that was canceled. how does this person know about Coda"?

After a google search using "furry ds rpg coda," I learned that the game was in fact completed and released in Japan and overseas. That's great because I thought it was a quality product. Especially when the third act of the story gets going.

I have all my past work on a data DVD. If anyone wants the Japanese-English script from the 2008 pre-release version of Solatorobo, I can send it to you.